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A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (7)

Hani Shukrallah

Popular revolutions inevitably have strange bed-fellows; the point is which party gets to be on top

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (6)

Hani Shukrallah

Bemoaning the Muslim Brotherhood’s lost democracy? Well, think again

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (5)

Hani Shukrallah

In revolutionary times, the adage “the higher they climb, the harder they fall” is especially germane

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (4)

Hani Shukrallah

The people’s revolutionary upsurge strikes at the foundations of SCAF supremacy, paradoxically whetting the Brotherhood’s appetite for power

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (3)

Hani Shukrallah

It may have been a marriage of convenience, but it had all the hallmarks of a match made in heaven. Why did it sour?

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (2)

Hani Shukrallah

In the second instalment of this essay: a look at 'the best of all possible worlds' that was not to be

A people's history of the Egyptian revolution (1)

Hani Shukrallah

Egypt’s current reality – muddled, chaotic and overcast with ambiguity – can be understood only by situating it within the nation’s tumultuous revolutionary history. Ahram Online will run the essay in daily instalments

Mubarak's release and the rule of law

Namira Negm

The release of former president Hosni Mubarak came as a shock to Egyptians trying to fight corruption and win justice for those killed during the revolution

Questioning the future of the Muslim Brotherhood

Hicham Mourad

The Muslim Brotherhood is provoking violence for its own political aims

Egypt's poisonous culture of hatred

Nader Bakkar

In our repeated attempts to stop the state of polarisation in society over the last year, the Nour Party encountered a culture of hatred which must be addressed

Happy Third of July, Egypt

Maha Ghalwash

The ouster of President Morsi puts the country's fledgling democracy back on track, despite international media's fears

Egypt’s crisis: the days after

Mohamed El-Menshawy

In the wake of huge protests against President Morsi on 30 June, observers are left with one question: What comes next?

A people’s history of the Egyptian revolution (8)

Hani Shukrallah

30 June was a massive revolutionary uprising by millions of Egyptians. Was it also a military coup? Sure, but so was each wave of the Egyptian revolution – the alternative is Syria

De-Islamising Egypt's constitution

Hicham Mourad

Egypt's 50-member constitution-drafting committee is dominated by secularists and is working to 'de-Islamise' the country's 2012 charter

The Oslo Accords 20 years on: Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?

Haim Bresheeth

The Oslo Accords accelerated the disappearance of Palestine, with disastrous results

For a constitution worthy of the revolution

Nader Fergany

Islamists and the people made mistakes during the first transitional period. These should not be repeated in the second period, the most important outcome of which is the constitution

Between Ittihadiya Palace and the White House

Mohamed El-Menshawy

Egypt and the US shared, and will continue to share, a very special relationship. The US has recently appeared to know its purpose, whereas Egypt has not

September 11: The grave costs of fear

Khaled Fahmy

Following the 9/11 events, a discourse of fear proliferated in America, shutting down rational thought. Wars abroad and attacks on rights at home followed, with dear ethical and legal consequences

Egypt: Nothing was inevitable

Ibrahim El-Houdaiby

Events since the January 25 Revolution, including the Brotherhood's ouster and the revival of the outlines of the Mubarak regime, were not inevitable but the result of choices and mistakes made

Washington and the dilemma of its three allies

Mohamed El-Menshawy

US thinker Walter Russell Mead says that Obama should have prioritised alliances with Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Egyptian military

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